Attaching covers to sewing-machines



(NoModeL) J. WEISS. ATTAQHING COVERS TO SEWING MACHINES. No.2&3,636. Patented Aug. 29, 1882.

5 certain new NITED STATES I PATENT Fries.

JOHN WEISS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHING COVERS TO SEWING-MACHINES SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,636, dated August 29, 1882.

Application filed April 27, 1882. (No model.)

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WEISS, a subject of Austria, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented and useful Improvements in the Manner of Attaching Cases or (lovers to Sewine-Machines and other Devices, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manner of attaching cases or covers to sewingmachines or other devices.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for keeping the cover of a sewing-niachine or other device slightly raised from the surface of the table when the cover is shut to prevent the finish on the surface of the table from being destroyed by contact with the edges of the cover, which is invariably the case with covers applied in the ordinary manner, having their edges in direct contact with the surface of the table.

by apccnliar construction of the hinges or catches and of the lock used on the case or cover, in the manner hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, showing a table and cover supplied with my improvement, the cover being open. --Fig. 2 is a partial sectional view of the same with the cover closed. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the hinges or catches, andFig. 4 is a detailed view of the lock.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the table of a sewing'machine or other device; B, the cover or case; 0 U, the hinges, and D the lock.

The hinges U are made as shown in Fig. 3, provided with the customary curved projection a, whichfits in a slotted opening, 0, in a plate, 1;, let into the table flush with the sur- 7 face thereof in the usual manner. Instead of havingthe projection a the same sizethroughout its length, as has heretofore been the custom, I make it wider at the base,-forming at I attain this object each side a shoulder, a e, which rests on the plate pwhen the cover is closed, keeping the said cover slightly raised from the surface of the table. (See l ig. 2 j Y The lock D maybe made after any desired jeotions e c, which, when the cover Bis closed, rest on the plate'p, inserted in the table, in the ordinary manner, to receive the bolt. y

The. projections e e on the face of the loclr I) may be made by simply inserting the metal from the under side,'or in any other'suitable manner. Instead of the shoulders e e on the hinges U G, a projection or be formed in the manner described for those, 0 e, on the face of the lock suitable manner accomplishing the same result. I do not therefore wish to be confined .to this particular construction. By this arrangement, which is very simple, and can be supplied with additional cost over the ordinary method, the cover, when closed, is held at all times a trifle from the surface of the table, thus preserving the finish thereon.

By having a support at each of the hinges .aud at the lock the cover is supportedat'the three points in the form of an isosceles or equilateral triangle, and. when locked is held very firmly in its place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, with the table A, having slotted plates 12 pflof the lid or cover B, hinges G, havingtongues a, provided with shoulders e e, and the lock 1), having projections e e, substantially as described.

presence of two witnesses.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in t JOHN 'wnrss.

Witnesses:

FRANK JOHNSON, CHAS. KRESSMANN.

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